"No one will protect us except ourselves," she said on Monday.

“We know why Putin killed Alexei three days ago,” Yulia Navalnaya said Monday.

Yulia Navalnaya, wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of being involved her husband’s death and vowed on Monday to continue his work.

“We know why Putin killed Alexei three days ago, we will tell you about it soon,” she said in a video message. “But the main thing we can do for Alexei and for ourselves is to continue to fight. I will continue the work of Alexei Navalny, continue to fight for our country, and I urge you to stand next to me.”

Navalny, a long-time Russian opposition politician and critic of the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin died in prison at age 47 on Friday, the state prison service said.

  • Hubi@feddit.deEnglish
    423·
    9 months ago

    They fell for the Russian disinformation campaign trying to paint Navalny as a far right nationalist and proponent of the Ukraine invasion, even though he repeatedly voiced his disapproval in recent years.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      9 months ago

      far right nationalist and proponent of the Ukraine invasion

      If that had been true, he’d have LOVED Putin ffs 🤦

          • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
            53·
            9 months ago

            In one of the videos, in which he advocates for gun rights, he compares militants from the Caucasus to cockroaches and mimics shooting one who attempts to “attack” him.

            you don’t need to believe me but i hope you look into it.

            • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
              12·
              9 months ago

              And killing journalist in the middle of Moscow is ok? Or another journalist and human rights activist? Or killed later Boris Nemtsov? To be fair Kadirov killed even his own bodyguard. Also mentioned gun laws are copy of ukrainian gun laws. Speaking of ukrainians: apparently in 2022 he grown tired of killing only russians and chechens, so he kills ukrainians since then too.

              Speaking of cockroaches and other animals: is it now how western media calls russians now? And by extent call chechens too. So russians can’t talk about domestic problems, but foreign media can talk about russians’ problems?

              I already can see your mental gymnastics coming.

              • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
                42·
                9 months ago

                >Speaking of ukrainians: apparently in 2022 he grown tired of killing only russians and chechens, so he kills ukrainians since then too.

                you’re not going to catch me saying putin does good things. i don’t know if he’s ever done a single good thing.

              • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
                01·
                9 months ago

                >Speaking of cockroaches and other animals: is it now how western media calls russians now?

                i haven’t heard that, but i’d condemn it if i did.

    • 4_degrees@lemmy.worldEnglish
      113·
      9 months ago

      Russian disinformation? Can you name a single policy that would have made Navalny a desirable outcome? You think he’d pull out of Ukraine?

      • Hubi@feddit.deEnglish
        161·
        9 months ago

        In February 2022, Navalny compared the recognition of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic by Russia to when Soviet leaders deployed troops to Afghanistan in 1979, describing both events as a distraction to the population from real issues. He said that he believes that while Putin will not allow Ukraine to develop, Russia will pay the same price, and that Putin needed to be removed to save Russia.

        On 2 March 2022, Navalny urged Russian citizens to stage daily protests against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, saying Russia should not be a “nation of frightened people” and “cowards who pretend not to notice the aggressive war” launched by “our insane tsar”.

        If, to prevent war, we need to fill up the jails and police vans, we will fill up the jails and police vans. Everything has a price and now, in the spring of 2022, we should pay that price. — Alexei Navalny

        Navalny would’ve been the preferable candidate in every regard. The list of reasons is literally too long to be summarized by a single comment.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny#Foreign_policy